After two acclaimed story collections, Laura van den Berg brings us Find Me, her highly anticipated debut novel - a spellbinding, darkly funny tale of a young woman searching for her place in the world. Joy has no one. She spends her days working the graveyard shift at the grocery store on the outskirts of Boston and nursing an addiction to cough syrup, an attempt to suppress her troubled past. When a sickness that begins with memory loss and ends with death sweeps the country, Joy, for the first time in her life, has an advantage: she is immune. After her immunity gains her admittance to a research hospital in rural Kansas, she submits to peculiar treatments and forms cautious bonds with other patients, including her roommate, whom she turns to in the night for comfort, and twin boys who are digging a secret tunnel. As winter descends, the hospital's fragile order breaks down and Joy breaks free, embarking on a journey from Kansas to Florida, where she believes she can find her birth mother, the woman who abandoned her as a baby. On the road in a ravaged America, she encounters curious companions, cities turned strange, and one very eerie house. As Joy closes in on Florida, she must confront her own damaged memory and the secrets she has been keeping from herself. At once grisly and gorgeous, devastating and full of hope, Find Me evokes an unforgettable vision of a future America and spins a gripping, haunting story about a young woman's courageous search for herself and a way to love. -- Jacket flap.